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29 classified statements · 1 politicians · June 19, 2026 · 8 min
Statements by Kim Kataguiri. 29 excerpts classified by topic and stance. Topics: Public Budget, Fiscal Reform, Investment Policy, Legislative Process.
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Kim Kataguiri
0:15
About: explain justifications for the increase in mandatory expenditures
Well, first, I think the minister needs to explain how he can have a stance regarding the increase in mandatory expenditures.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Says explicitly 'ele precisa explicar' about the increase in mandatory expenditures.
Kim Kataguiri
0:23
About: increase mandatory expenditures
But at the same time the government's base here in the Chamber of Deputies votes in favor of all these mandatory expenditures.
Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence Reports that the government's base votes in favor of these expenditures, without expressing an opinion in that regard.
Kim Kataguiri
0:27
About: repeal the transition PEC
And the very model that will lead the budget to collapse, which the minister himself said, including recently in an interview with Estadão, was the transition PEC, approved by the government.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence Attributes the risk of budgetary collapse to the transition PEC, criticizing its past approval.
Kim Kataguiri
0:37
About: unlink public expenditures from revenue
Today we have a fiscal model that makes no sense at all, because the more we collect, the more we are obliged to spend, because our expenditures are tied to net current revenue and tax revenue.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Criticizes the linking of expenditures to revenues and points to the need for structural change.
Kim Kataguiri
0:48
About: unlink parliamentary amendments from tax revenue
So we are crushing our budget.
Why it was classified this way · 65% confidence Diagnoses that the budget is 'esmagado' without an explicit proposal in that regard.
Kim Kataguiri
0:52
About: unlink parliamentary amendments from tax revenue
And soon there will be no need for a president of the republic, because 100% of the budget's execution is already defined by law.
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence States an institutional consequence of budgetary earmarking without proposing direct action there.
Kim Kataguiri
0:58
About: unlink parliamentary amendments from tax revenue
Today the president of the republic only decides over 8% of the budget.
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence Quantifies the president's discretionary share as an institutional diagnosis.
Kim Kataguiri
1:01
About: unlink parliamentary amendments from tax revenue
So for every 100 reais we pay in taxes, the president only decides where 8% goes.
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence Provides an example of the Executive's low discretionary margin, a descriptive remark about the system.
Kim Kataguiri
1:06
About: unlink parliamentary amendments from tax revenue
And soon he won't decide anything.
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence Reiterates the loss of presidential decision-making over the budget as a finding.
Kim Kataguiri
1:08
About: unlink parliamentary amendments from tax revenue
In the next legislature he won't decide anything.
Why it was classified this way · 60% confidence States that in the next legislature the president will not decide, an institutional diagnosis.
Kim Kataguiri
1:19
About: explain justifications for the increase in mandatory expenditures
And my question to the minister, and I await his response, is: if his position is indeed to state that we will arrive at a scenario of fiscal collapse, why does the government's base continue to increase mandatory expenditures?
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Asks the minister why the base continues increasing spending despite the diagnosis.
Kim Kataguiri
1:39
About: prioritize public investments based on science, data, and technical expertise
So this concern, especially for future generations, which seems absent on the part of the government... Because it's necessary to make a distinction between expenditure and investment.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Defines investment as infrastructure and science, arguing for returns to future generations.
Kim Kataguiri
1:55
About: prioritize public investments based on science, data, and technical expertise
Investment is when you invest in infrastructure, it's when you invest in science and technology.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Explains that investment benefits future generations, clearly advocating that priority.
Kim Kataguiri
2:10
About: prioritize public investments based on science, data, and technical expertise
And we have not been making any investments.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence States that investment is not currently being made, a diagnosis about allocation.
Kim Kataguiri
2:13
About: prioritize public investments based on science, data, and technical expertise
And the small amount of investment we make is poorly allocated.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Says that the small amount of investment made is 'mal alocado', advocating better allocation.
Kim Kataguiri
2:28
About: government assume responsibility for bombshell measures approved in the National Congress
Just to finish, the government tends to put much of the responsibility for what it calls 'pauta-bomba'—which, in fact, are budget bombs—on the shoulders of Congress.
Why it was classified this way · 82% confidence Criticizes the government for attributing responsibility to Congress for measures that the base approves.
Kim Kataguiri
2:58
About: approve bombshell measures in the National Congress
If you analyze the last seven measures that the government called 'pauta-bomba', there was a single deputy who voted against all of them.
Why it was classified this way · 78% confidence Reports that the majority of the base and part of the opposition voted in favor on the pautas-bomba.
Kim Kataguiri
3:29
About: unlink public expenditures from revenue
I presented two years ago a PEC that we called the Fiscal Balance PEC, together with Representative Pedro Paulo and Júlio Lopes.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Presented the Fiscal Balance PEC that unlinks expenditures, advocating the proposal.
Kim Kataguiri
3:36
About: unlink public expenditures from revenue
which detaches our expenditures from revenue, that is, we can choose where to spend, where to invest this money, independently of any constitutional obligation; to detach social security benefits from the minimum wage, because one thing is to adjust the retiree's purchasing power for inflation, another is to give real gains, because real gains in the minimum wage should be granted with productivity increases.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Explains the PEC's goal: to choose spending priorities independently of constitutional earmarks.
Kim Kataguiri
4:03
About: unlink social security benefits from the minimum wage
Those who are not working do not contribute to increases in productivity.
Why it was classified this way · 90% confidence Explicitly proposes unlinking pension benefits from the minimum wage.
Kim Kataguiri
4:06
About: unlink social security benefits from the minimum wage
Throughout the developed world, the minimum wage is not linked to social security benefits.
Why it was classified this way · 70% confidence Cites an international practice as supporting information for the previous proposal.
Kim Kataguiri
4:11
About: improve eligibility and oversight criteria to reduce fraud
So, one point to be addressed is this, and frauds in the Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) as well.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Indicates fraud and says it is an issue to be addressed, advocating action against fraud.
Kim Kataguiri
4:18
About: improve eligibility and oversight criteria to reduce fraud
Several families that have children, especially with autism spectrum disorder, have reported to me an industry of false autism reports solely for the granting of the BPC.
Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence Reports allegations of 'falsos laudos' used to grant the BPC, calling for action.
Kim Kataguiri
4:29
About: monitor growth of the Continuous Cash Benefit (BPC)
And the natural growth of the BPC in recent years has been 6%.
Why it was classified this way · 75% confidence Points to a 6% growth rate of the BPC, stating it does not match the population.
Kim Kataguiri
4:43
About: cut mandatory parliamentary amendments and the secret budget
In fact, one of my positions is to cut parliamentary amendments, part of which—the individual mandatory ones—are tied to revenue, as are the bloc amendments as well; these amount to 60 billion reais in expenditures, adding the committee ones, which is the secret budget, that we have in spending every year and that could be much better invested.
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence Explicitly states 'um dos meus posicionamentos é de cortar emendas parlamentares'.
Kim Kataguiri
5:16
About: review tax waivers for large companies
And another important aspect... tax privileges for large companies.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence States that R$200 billion benefits large companies and 'precisam ser revistos'.
Kim Kataguiri
5:31
About: end tax benefits of the Manaus Free Trade Zone
Then there is the exemption of the basic food basket, then the Manaus Free Trade Zone, which I think must end.
Why it was classified this way · 86% confidence Explicitly declares 'Zona Franca de Manaus, que acho que tem que acabar'.
Kim Kataguiri
6:15
About: make the tax system more progressive
Because the Brazilian tax system charges the poor more, since it is based on consumption, not on income or on wealth.
Why it was classified this way · 88% confidence Criticizes consumption-based taxation and says it burdens the poor more.
Kim Kataguiri
6:47
About: eliminate excessive salaries from the public service
And to close, there is also another R$ 15 billion of super-salaries, mainly in the Judiciary, in the MPF (Federal Public Ministry) and in the legal careers of the Executive Branch, where someone who already earns R$ 46,000 then, illegally, unconstitutionally, receives more than R$ 46,000, which is the ceiling of the public service, the salary of a minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).
Why it was classified this way · 92% confidence States that excessive salaries 'tem que ser cortado 100%', an explicit position for cuts.
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